bz wrote:


> There are several other good reasons that I can't think of at the moment
> but they are all related to 'microsoft thought it would be cool to make
> messages pretty. They assumed a small offfice environment.'


Microsoft just copied what Netscape has started. Just that Microsoft's
pseudo-mail clients where really just intended for an isolated small office
environment, and later some stupid marketing fool decided to expose them to
the Internet.